Trinity Guardrail Crash Testing Completed

The last of eight federally mandated crash tests on the ET-Plus guardrail has been completed in San Antonio, Texas. The tests were ordered following allegations that the highway safety mechanism was malfunctioning, injuring and killing those involved in guardrail crashes. Because of such claims, mor...

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Guardrail Crash Testing Begins

Crash testing has begun on the controversial ET-Plus guardrail end terminal device. The Federal Highway Adminstration ordered the tests this fall following reports across the country that the safety device was potentially defective. More than 30 states placed a temporary ban on the installation of t...

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Trinity Industries Sued by Virginia

Virginia’s attorney general has filed a complaint against Trinity Industries, a guardrail manufacturer who was recently found to be defrauding the government. Unauthorized changes were made to a safety device, the ET-Plus guardrail end terminal. Experts now believe those changes are the cause ...

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Nashville Removes Potentially Defective Guardrails

Nashville, Tennessee road crews have begun work to remove the twenty ET-Plus guardrail end terminals in the metro area. This marks the first such kind of removal of the allegedly defective device, though the guardrail head has been temporarily banned in more than thirty states across the country. Ci...

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